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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: jahc on May 26, 2003, 06:45:07 AM

Title: Errors with floppys, but only sometimes
Post by: jahc on May 26, 2003, 06:45:07 AM

I brought an A600, and it had a hard drive with OS 3.x installed, obviously because someone took it out of an A1200.. anyway, when I play games, the floppy drive reads disks just fine. When I load XCopyPro and use "Format" or "Verify", again, there are no errors. However, if I try to format or read a disk in Workbench, I get checksum errors. I suspect that because the wrong WB is installed, thats why there are errors. Does that sound right? We cleaned the heads on the drive so its not that..

Title: Re: Errors with floppys, but only sometimes
Post by: Brian on May 26, 2003, 09:06:57 AM

Sounds right to me... running wrong OS on wrong ROM gives weird results at best. Try installing OS2.0/2.1 instead.

Title: Re: Errors with floppys, but only sometimes
Post by: Hardboy on May 26, 2003, 09:49:22 AM

Some parts of the filesystem is only supported with 3.x roms, and can therefore not be read with an a600. Try to reinstall workbench.